This book provides activities to help students create "museums" full of specially crafted "artifacts" such as masks, jewelry, pottery, mosaics, weapons, and more that highlight the economic, political, scientific, and cultural components on which civilizations are based. Includes reproducible pages for exhibit description cards and invitations to the museum's grand opening. Students share information through oral presentations, guided tours, factual and creative writing, art, map making, and more. Activities are based on current academic content standards.
Museums are storehouses of interesting things that help us learn more about the natural world and other cultures. Ancient Rome provides ideas and activities to help students create their own amazing "museum" full of specially crafted "artifacts" from the ancient civilization of Rome. These projects and activities highlight the economic, political, scientific, and cultural components on which civilizations are based.
Here are just a few of the kinds of artifacts students can make for the class museum while working alone, with a partner, or in small groups:
- Roman roads
- Aqueducts
- Mosaics
- Roman coins
- Roman masks
- Roman clothing and jewelry
- Roman gods and goddesses
- Mileposts
Also included are reproducible pages for making exhibit description cards and invitations to the museum's grand opening. Students share their information through oral presentations, guided tours of their museum, factual and creative writing, art, map making, and more. The projects and activities are based on current academic content standards.
